Shower Drain Help

[jsym]

Everyone,

I am currently working on tiling a shower in my basement. The floor made of cement. The problem I am running into is that the drain that I'm going to be using is a 6 7/8" cast iron drain. I am putting floor tile up to this drain. From there I need to find a shower drain cover to bolt into this drain. I can't seem to find a drain for this project anywhere.

If you anyone can help with this please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[frodo]

are you installing a mud bed with a shower pan under the tile?

a shower drain has 3 parts, the body, the weep ring/pan liner ring and the strainer.

which of these parts are you missing ?

i am trying to figure out which pieces your are missing

can you post a picture of your project

 

[JoeThePlumber]

Sounds like your trying to use an existing floor drain in your basement.If so the drain is huge, cast Iron, and it needs to go. Make sure it takes water well before you put it into use. Break up the concrete around the drain dig down till you find the pipe below the drain, if I'm guessing correctly the 6" top of the drain has a much smaller hole when you look down in and has a smaller drain pipe diameter than 6". expose the pipe, cut it and remove the 6" portion. Buy a rubber fernco fitting to adapt to the existing pipe and 2'' pvc pipe. stub the pvc up and use the shower drain parts described by frodo. hope it helps

 

[jsym]

That is the kind of drain I'm referring to. I already started tiling thinking there was an easy fix for this until I ran into it. There are no such kits to change this over?

 

[Mr_David]

Showers should have a water proof membrane under the tile. Tile and grout alone is not water proof. Needs a drain with a flange for the waterproof membrane. floor sloops to drain then membrane, then tile

 

[JoeThePlumber]

There is no kit to use this floor drain and adapt to a shower drain properly. Its possible not proper but theoretically you could find as piece of pipe that fits inside the smaller portion of the existing drain and as wrong as it is silicone it down in, use bushings on the new shower drain to adapt to whatever you can fit down in there. LOL. set the drain a tiny bit below the tile height and fill the opening around the new drain piece with hydraulic cement or something. The shower is already rigged and quite hillarious but you can make it work. Mr. David is totally right but I say go for it....I cant see it from my house. Seal the grout really, really good and it may last for a while, clear coat it, seal it again. haha. at least its on concrete what do you have to lose....

 

[Mr_David]

I cant see it from my house. QUOTE]

Very true and I have used that quote jokingly more times than I can count

 

[jsym]

JoeThePlumber

It's obvious this is not my profession but I must ask why this shower is "rigged and hillarious"

Whatever I need to change to do it right I will. That's why I decided to join this forum to ask for help from the professionals.

 

[frodo]

look at this cut away, if your floor is not like this, tear it out and redo it

 

[jsym]

Does anyone have any suggestions where I can get a waterproof membrane as stated above?

 

[frodo]

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youtube kerdi-schluter shower pan help videos for more info